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The stories behind the Oxford English Dictionary
Anyone who finds dictionaries boring has not read Sarah Ogilvie’s new book
The Sassoons were once Asia's top business dynasty
The Global Merchants tells the story of their rise and fall
An engaging, original history of one of the world's oldest cities
A new book by Bruce Clark, an Economist contributor on culture and ideas, will delight even those familiar with Athens
A history and defence of venture capital in The Power Law
Sebastian Mallaby's book acknowledges some of the VC industry's shortcomings, but also zealously defends its overall achievements
Tales of a place formerly known as Aukang
My Father's Kampung weaves together personal and public histories, and uses each realm to enrich and reinforce the other
When listening to a book is better than reading it
Many books achieve a resonance via the spoken word that their text alone cannot fully deliver.
Keep calm and invest away
With the second edition of The Value Investors, Ronald Chan highlights the need to get informed
Making the historical case for talent
The political editor of The Economist, a former Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, defends a good idea with a bad name today
Blurring the lines between fiction and reality
Two accounts of the turmoil of lives in transit throw new light on those threading through tension and terror
A beastly book that ruined the film
Fantastic Beasts is a hollow shell of a book that adds no value to the Potter story
